How to Survive Life in the Suburbs

Who Says Bribery Doesn’t Work

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I needed their rooms cleaned up.

I wanted them to practice their piano.

Showers are required.

Litter box must be cleaned.

Please girls, do your chores.

Girls, remember I asked you to clean the litter box?

Girls….

SweetGirl YOU are the one with the piano lesson tomorrow, not me.

nag nag nag nag

Is this my life now?

Screw this. 

Let the bribery begin. 

Clean your room and you can have ice cream for desert.

(You have never seen a room cleaned so fast in your life)

Who wants McDonald’s?  Oh gee, wait a second. Did you clean the litter box and practice your piano yet?  We can’t possibly go for a treat like McDonalds until you take care of those things first!

What’s that?  You want to stay up and watch a little extra TV?  Hmmm well sure, but how about jumping in the shower first.

Is this wrong?  Maybe, but frankly it’s been a long flippin week here in the Suburbs and it is only Tuesday.  If bribing your kids is wrong, I don’t want to be right!

Oh and PS.  If you meet a Mama in the Suburbs who says she has never bribed her babies.  Yeah, she is a liar. 

    • Comments

    4. Hi there,

      Thanks again so much for stopping by my blog today–I’m here to return the favor and I’m your newest follower now (after reading this kick-ass post about bribery and children!)!

      I bribe my 4 year-old twins constantly. Always good to know I’m not alone in that respect. In fact, I’m not sure they’d ever agree to bathe or clean up their rooms if a treat of some kind wasn’t involved!!!

    6. That is the best lesson, that they work first, and receive some compensation for doing so. My brother never learned that one as a kid and he has spent ten years expecting compensation for nothing.

      Kids learn fast, as long as there are lessons; you’re doing the right thing.

      Secretia

    7. Bribery definately works better than threats. I have actually had my daughter tell me to go ahead and thow the stuff she left out away. Imagine her suprise when I did!

    8. I tried bribing my kids, but they were such buggers one told me at the age of 4 that he could not be bribed – argh! One of so few tools we moms can weild.

    11. If it works, stick with it.

      My kids…Valentines Day is right around the corner. We have little gifts (I prefer jewelry, but that is just me) we exchange (pick out my own and act surprised).